But anyway...No "standard" User will have a hammer before mid-end 2003 because
1. of it's price (speculation - I don't know wether it will be too expensive for most of us for the first months)
2. Who buys something, nothing is supported ? Right, nobody but the devs

But we'll see...I doubt I can help too much since my interest in programming is heavily specified to C# / .NET / Mono

I plan to get a hammer system as soon as they come out, I'm already saving up for it, and will soon have my student loan, and scholarship to help me pay for it, so what if I have to live of noodles at 9p per packet, a hammer system will be awesome.
Not sure if I should wait a little longer though and get a dual hammer setup._________________Plug and Play, more like Plug and Pray

Just been having a nosey round, not sure if you have already seen it but http://www.x86-64.org/ is a site supported by AMD for porting open source projects to x86-64._________________Plug and Play, more like Plug and Pray

Yes I know the site, they have a x86-64 emulator, I will try that out and then try to port Gentoo to it, shouldn't be to difficult but time comsuming, so as promised when I have time, and I will post the progress

I haven't had too much time lately, but the simnow emu runs on my machine, but I can find detailed docs about how it works, so right now I give up with simnow and started using bochs (I am more familiar with bochs), bochs has x86-64 support, yes, but it is as slow as hell, trying to compile something in the vm, but I will try this more when time permits

There is an almost complete amd64 port in the CVS. Stages and a LiveCD should be released shortly.

ANy further information on the amd64 Stages and/or LiveCD? If now, how can I get access to CVS where the amd64 port would be? Dual Opteron box sitting next to my foot just waiting for some Gentoo lovin'.